Soft seat mat for a stool

Sometimes, from completely waste material that is sent for take-out and recycling, you can make practical and useful things that will be useful to you in everyday life.

For example, accumulated deposits of worn out women's tights and balls of not the most beautiful yarn, leftovers from projects or the dissolution of old things. All this, as a rule, lies unused or is simply thrown away. But by using some imagination, you can get the right thing, for example, a soft seat mat for a stool or other attribute of a hallway, balcony, or landing.

Let's prepare thick yarn or connected threads from the leftovers, which we will wind into large balls, tights that will never be worn again (old children's tights and knitwear cut into strips are also quite suitable for this purpose, but stockings are preferable, since there is no cut edge, and means debris from cut threads) and a crochet hook of at least N 5.
You can knit a circular rug or a square one.

We subject old tights to execution. Cut off the legs from the top. This is what the blanks for the volumetric part of the rug will look like. We start knitting with a pair of air loops of yarn.Then we put tights into the knitting and begin tying it.


Having made 5-7 loops, loop the chain, and then do everything knitting columns without cape. We knit in a circle, braiding the stocking, and not forgetting to add loops evenly as the binding is completed to get an even and dense “pancake”.


When one stocking ends, we carefully “embed” the next one inside the previous one and grab it tightly with a working thread. In the finished product, the joint is completely invisible.
Since the loops are large, knitting such a seat mat is quite quick.



The last 1-2 rows can be done without inserting a stocking, so that the round seat has an even edge.


The rug is quite thick and elastically soft, comfortable for sitting. If necessary, it can be secured to a stool using a cord or braid, tied by the legs. If you do not use leftover yarn, but select bright threads by color, the rugs will come out elegant and even with a thematic pattern, so again there is room for handicraft imagination.